Wikipedia, fount of all knowledge that it is, claims that it's a response designed to keep toxins away from developing pregnancies by causing you to over-react to potential signs of toxicity...
I got to the stage of offering to strangle the next medical professional who told me to put up with it, you're pregnant, what did you expect. Gits.
The bit I found really important in the info pile was the pain relief options - some of them had to be set up months in advance and if you don't then drugs is pretty much your only option. Which is fine if that's what you want, but a bit frustrating if you wanted to try water birth or whatever.
And pelvic floor excersises.I know everyone tells each other to exercise all the time and no one really does, but pelvic floor exercises are really worth doing.
I puked solidly for seven weeks - there's no cure!
Ginger biscuits, crackers and cheese, yoghurt- you just have to cycle things round, as I got pretty sick of everything I ate. The good news is that the baby preferentially steals the calories so generally grows fine, even as you waste away! Second trimester things get better.
I tried sea sickness bands which may have helped but I couldn't decide. Amy foetus wouldn't eat chicken and I craved avocados a bit and then found they have an anti sickness thing in them. I got told I had to drink a mug of hot chocolate a day, a rule I liked a lot!! Oh and I have hypnobirthing stuff if you want. It didn't entirely help but helped me go to sleep pre labour and gave me an excuse to lie down for an hour a day. The breathing bit helped labour. I would ignore everything about labour til you're in your third trimester, by then you'll just want it out and it's mildly less horrifying. Oh and I decided to go down the hippy route and read about women who orgasm in labour or give birth in their sleep. It cheered me up no end ;)
Seconded on the ginger biscuits and yoghurts. I was fine with the belly goblin, but this time around I was sick 24hrs a day too. Yoghurt calmed it down, ginger biscuits made it go away. I also found that mints - mostly spearmint - helped too.
It was horrible, but by week 13 it had all but gone away. I shall keep fingers crossed that it does for you too.
Oh, and another recommendation: keep lots of paracetemol in the house. It helps for everything from colds upwards, and is apparently the safest medicine around if you're pregnant. It's certainly the only one I take.
Things I found helpful: - Keeping your tummy with just a little bit in it at all times, so you're never full but never starving. Crackers or nuts or fruit or anything snackable is good. - Water water water. - Motion-sickness wristbands. They didn't take away all the I'm-gonna-be-sick feeling, but they took away 80% allowing me to do things almost like a normal person. - Tums for heartburn was a lifesaver.
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The bit I found really important in the info pile was the pain relief options - some of them had to be set up months in advance and if you don't then drugs is pretty much your only option. Which is fine if that's what you want, but a bit frustrating if you wanted to try water birth or whatever.
And pelvic floor excersises.I know everyone tells each other to exercise all the time and no one really does, but pelvic floor exercises are really worth doing.
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That probably makes me a terrible person, but it is the truth.
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Ginger biscuits, crackers and cheese, yoghurt- you just have to cycle things round, as I got pretty sick of everything I ate. The good news is that the baby preferentially steals the calories so generally grows fine, even as you waste away! Second trimester things get better.
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It was horrible, but by week 13 it had all but gone away. I shall keep fingers crossed that it does for you too.
Oh, and another recommendation: keep lots of paracetemol in the house. It helps for everything from colds upwards, and is apparently the safest medicine around if you're pregnant. It's certainly the only one I take.
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- Keeping your tummy with just a little bit in it at all times, so you're never full but never starving. Crackers or nuts or fruit or anything snackable is good.
- Water water water.
- Motion-sickness wristbands. They didn't take away all the I'm-gonna-be-sick feeling, but they took away 80% allowing me to do things almost like a normal person.
- Tums for heartburn was a lifesaver.
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